Social Work

This position is located at Kayenta Service Unit (KSU), Division of Clinical Services, Counseling Services, Kayenta, AZ or Inscription House, AZ. The primary purpose of this position is to provide therapeutic mental health and/or social services to adults, families and some children and adolescents. This position will emphasize community and interagency liaison effects on behalf of adults or famiies and their children..

• Exercises mature, professional judgement and flexible application of a broad range of psychiatric social work skills in the study, diagnosis and treatment of individual patients, and/or families who present an unlimited range of complex psycho-social and environmental problems.
• Reaches independent conclusions in serving isolated and vulnerable patients having complicated, conflicting needs and relationships that are difficult to resolve.
• Provides continuing psychiatric social work service to patients and/or their families while they are recovering from mental illness or living with a mentally ill family member.
• Provides case studies for medical providers, other medical staff and community agencies.
• Coordinates with tribal communities, courts and community groups in the provision of services and programs to the Indian community to meet identified needs, including community program education and community support groups.
• Prepares and completes correspondence, reports, case records, statistical and other similar or related material regarding the progress of psychiatric social work services.